A conference about Nigerian news media closes a seminar in Valencia on the media´s impact on immigration and sustainable development

Yesterday, in the Faculty of Philology at the Universidad de Valencia, Professor Jenkeri Zakari Okwori, from the University Ahmadu Bello of Zaria (Nigeria), closed the seminar titled The handling of information about Sub-Saharan Africa in the mass media and its impact on the area of immigration and sustainable development.  

The initiative, which began on October the 18th, included master classes with José Carlos Sendín, Mbuyi Kabunda and Alfonso Armada, as well as a round table moderated by Sidibe Moussa. 

The Patronat Sud-Nord, the UNESCO Chair and the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication of the Universidad de Valencia, Foreign Policy Studies, Bancaja and Casa África all collaborated in the event.

The handling of information about Sub-Saharan Africa in the mass media and its impact on the area of immigration and sustainable development

Yesterday, Professor Okwori described the reality of Nigerian media, from the increasing importance of information technologies or communication methods, such as participative video or theatre for development, to the decline in newspapers or the trend of Nigerian audiences to trust foreign radio an television stations before local ones.

The Nigerian academic forms part of the Esfera pública africana (Public African Sphere), one of the titles in the Casa África Essay Collection, which is edited in collaboration with Libros de La Catarata.